On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:39:52PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > >>Even without getting into just how ugly this is, is it really worth > >>it? > it is impossible to run debug kernels w/o this patch :/ > or are you asking whether this optimization worth it? > > What makes me worry is that this is a sign that vendors > don't even bother to run debug kernels :((((

Fedora rawhide is nearly always shipping with DEBUG_SLAB enabled,and we didn't hit this once. Are you sure this is a problemwith DEBUG_SLAB, and not DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ?